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Mrs. Nikkis Childcare & Academic Center

A licensed child care center in Houston, Texas 77016

11131 Homestead Rd, Houston, Texas 77016. (281) 227-2907.

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The short answer

Record last released by Texas HHSC on Nov 5, 2026.

The last 24 months 13 deficiencies in 5 months of the last 36. Last cited Oct 2026. Most serious: High. Every month

Each figure’s source sits beside it, in its section below.

What these words mean5
Inspection (survey)
A visit by state inspectors, often unannounced, who check a place against the rules it must meet. For nursing homes and other places Medicare pays, CMS calls these visits surveys: a standard survey of a nursing home comes at least every 15 months, and a complaint survey whenever a complaint calls for one. Source: CMS; 42 CFR 488.308.
Deficiency, citation, violation
What inspectors write up when a place didn’t meet a rule: the rule, what they saw, and when. CMS calls it a deficiency; states may say citation or violation. It is the inspectors’ finding, not a court’s, and the place is usually asked for a plan to correct it. Source: CMS, statement of deficiencies (Form CMS-2567); each state’s licensing agency.
Texas’s risk levels
Texas gives each child care deficiency a risk level, by how likely it is to harm a child: Low, Medium Low, Medium, Medium High or High. High is its most serious. Source: Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Child Care Regulation.
Licence status
Whether the state’s licence lets the place operate now, in the state’s own words: licensed, on probation (allowed to keep operating on conditions, after problems), provisional, pending or expired. Source: Each state’s licensing agency.
Capacity
The most people the licence or certification lets the place care for at once: residents, children, beds or apartments, as the state counts them. It isn’t how many are there now. Source: Each state’s licensing agency.

What did inspectors find?

13 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 2,139 child care providers in Harris County had 4.

8 inspections on record. The latest, on Oct 14, 2026: 1 deficiency cited.

Rated High by Texas: Child Passenger Safety Seat System - 4 through 7 years of age, outgrown weight or height limit of seat and less than 4 feet, 9 inches in height, at the inspection on Nov 4, 2025

Rated High by Texas: Required Equipment in Vehicles - Emergency Medical Information, at the inspection on Nov 19, 2024

Source:

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data) and inspections and investigations. Released Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.

When those deficiencies happened

13 deficiencies in 5 months of the last 36. Last cited Oct 2026. Most serious: High. The last 3 years, to Nov 5, 2026.

13 deficiencies by month over the last 3 years. Each cell is one month.
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2023 Dec
2024 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2025 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2026 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNov

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No visit on record Visited, nothing cited A stronger orange is more serious, on its source’s own levels, read onto four bands: from the least serious it publishes to the most
Source:

Hearth Record drew this from the dates and levels in the source’s own records.

Each deficiency, in Texas’s words

Grouped by visit, newest first, with the risk level Texas gave it, from Low to High.

Source:

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data). Released Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.

Oct 14, 2026: inspection1 deficiency

  • Food Allergy Emergency Plan Signed by Parents and Health Care Professional

    “1 child with a food allergy emergency plan with a known food allergy that has been diagnosed by a health-care professional had a plan that expired on 9/24/26.”

    Rule 746.3819. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 28, 2026. Correction verified: Oct 19, 2026.

Nov 4, 2025: inspection3 deficiencies

  • Child Passenger Safety Seat System - 4 through 7 years of age, outgrown weight or height limit of seat and less than 4 feet, 9 inches in height

    “11 children under 4’9” were not placed in booster seats to transport, they used seat belts only.”

    Rule 746.5607(e)(4)(A). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 7, 2025. Correction verified: Nov 12, 2025.

  • Transportation Safety Training -Director and Employee Complete 2 Hours Annually

    “The director is missing 2-hours annual training requirements in Transportation.”

    Rule 746.1316(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 11, 2025. Correction verified: Nov 6, 2025.

  • Food Allergy Emergency Plan Signed by Parents and Health Care Professional

    “One child with a diagnosed food allergy did not have a complete food allergy emergency plan; missing the parent signature for the FARE form and missing both prescribed medications, epi-pen and cetrizine.”

    Rule 746.3819. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 18, 2025. Correction verified: Nov 6, 2025.

Nov 19, 2024: inspection7 deficiencies

  • Required Equipment in Vehicles - Emergency Medical Information

    “The transportation binder is missing Emergency medical transport and treatment authorization forms for 1 child that is transported to/from school. Note: the driver had printed off the child’s admission form and placed in the binder.”

    Rule 746.5617(a)(2). High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 19, 2024.

  • Pest Extermination

    “3 active ant beds were present on the playground. Note: this was corrected when the director had called in an exterminator to treat for ants.”

    Rule 746.3427. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 19, 2024.

  • Safety - Play Materials and Equipment Safe

    “A large piece of equipment made of plastic materials has deteriorated to the point of breaking and having sharp edges on the play surface. Note: this was corrected at inspection when the director had the equipment removed.”

    Rule 746.3701(5). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 19, 2024.

  • Food Allergy Emergency Plan Signed by Parents and Health Care Professional

    “1 child with a diagnosed food allergy emergency plan had an expired epi-pen stored at the operation.”

    Rule 746.3819. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 3, 2024. Correction verified: Dec 3, 2024.

  • Emergency Evacuation and Relocation Diagram - Posted in Each Room

    “The infant room did not have an emergency evacuation and relocation diagram. Note: this was corrected at inspection when the director posted one by the door.”

    Rule 746.5207(b). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 19, 2024.

  • Infant Daily Report - Summary of Activities

    “2 out of 2 infants did not have a daily report for the last 2 weeks.”

    Rule 746.2431(5). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 3, 2024. Correction verified: Nov 29, 2024.

  • Cots, Beds, Mats Labeled With Child’s Name

    “The preK room children use labeled cot/mats with a number and missing a number/child assignment map. Note: this was corrected at inspection when the caregiver wrote out a number/ child assignment map and posted in the room.”

    Rule 746.4503(b). Medium, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 19, 2024.

Jan 23, 2024: assessment1 deficiency

  • Report Number of Employees

    “A review of the Employees Who Left Employment in 2023 data from January 17, 2024, revealed that the center had not reported the number of employees who left employment in 2023 by January 15, 2024, as required”

    Rule 746.303(b). Medium Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 25, 2024. Correction verified: Jan 25, 2024.

Dec 8, 2023: inspection1 deficiency

  • Fire Drill Monthly - Exit in 3 Minutes

    “During review of fire safety the operation was found to have not conducted fire drills for the months of October and November.”

    Rule 746.5205(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 15, 2023. Correction verified: Dec 15, 2023.

2 deficiencies older than three years
Jan 5, 2023: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Director Annual Training - Caring for children under 24 months

    “The Director was lacking current training for children under 24 months of age. The operation cares for infants.”

    Rule 746.1311(d). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 9, 2023. Correction verified: Jan 9, 2023.

  • Transportation Safety Training -Director and Employee Complete 2 Hours Annually

    “The Director was lacking current transportation safety training.”

    Rule 746.1316(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 9, 2023. Correction verified: Jan 9, 2023.

All 9 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Oct 14, 2026Inspection1 deficiency cited
Nov 12, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Nov 4, 2025Inspection3 deficiencies cited
Dec 17, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Nov 19, 2024Inspection7 deficiencies cited
Jan 23, 2024Assessment1 deficiency cited
Dec 8, 2023Inspection1 deficiency cited
Jan 5, 2023Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Jan 21, 2022InspectionNo violation found

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Aug 28, 2015.
  • Accepts state child care subsidies.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 39 children.
Source:

Texas HHSC, child care operations. Released Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.

Has Texas acted against it?

  • No corrective or adverse action by Texas on record.
  • 0 reports to the state on record; Texas doesn’t publish whether they were .
Source:

Texas HHSC, child care operations and inspections and investigations. Released Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.

Who does the caring?

  • Texas doesn’t publish staffing levels for individual providers. State rules set staff-to-child ratios by age.

Who owns it?

  • Texas’s open data doesn’t list owners.

How is it rated?

  • Texas Rising Star: 3-Star (the middle of three levels).
Source:

Texas Workforce Commission, subsidy providers and Texas Rising Star. Released Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.

How does it compare nearby?

  • Among 2139 child care providers in Harris County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 4; this one had 13.
Source:

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data). Released Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.

11 of the 2,139 in Harris County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Precious Moments Learning Center8
Successful Starters Learning Academy II6
Mrs. Nikkis Childcare & Academic Center This child care provider13
A Life Christian Academy6
Kids Plus Academy17
Eli’s Learning Academy3
Youth Development Center3
Kreative 4 Kidz, LLC2
Lil Ones Daycare Emporium3
Kreative Dreams Academy LLC13
Lil’tots Group Day Home15
Precious Moments Learning Center10

What the record doesn’t say

  • Texas doesn’t publish whether a complaint was substantiated.
  • Texas rates some paperwork slips as High risk, so read what was actually cited.
  • Texas doesn’t publish staffing levels or owners for individual providers.

Sources

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Source:

This copy of the record was made on Nov 5, 2026.

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Not fully inspected in over two years (CMS flag)

11 health citations at the latest inspection cycle

The state average is 14.3.

Source:

CMS, State and US Averages and Health Deficiencies. Released Oct 28, 2026. Updated monthly.

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